Capernaum is about two hours of near unrelenting bleakness, but it’s the kind of bleakness that’s also a mostly intelligent indictment of just how we all let it come to this. The opening scene is hard enough, as we see…
Widows Review: Viola Davis Shines in this Reinvigorating Take on the Heist Thriller
Viola Davis continues to perform on a level all her own in Steve McQueen’s taut and thrilling Widows. A socio-political heart pounding heist, McQueen demonstrates his impressive versatility with this 12 Years a Slave follow up, proving that he can and will tackle…
Boy Erased Movie Review: A Strong Ensemble Stabilizes Joel Edgerton’s Adaptation
Based on Garrard Conley’s memoir Boy Erased: A Memoir, writer director and Joel Edgerton does fine work in adapting from the source material a story of familial and internal strife that intrinsically works onscreen in the micro scale opposed to the macro.…
Burning Movie Review: Lee Chang-dong’s Newest Masterpiece is Haunting and Magnificent
How complacent are we in our inability to retain memory in the fashion in which it is materialized? How complicit are we when inability to see past our own desires, our own justifications and belief systems leads us astray? When…
Halloween Movie Review: Shocks and scares can’t fully save this stale sequel
If you don’t think 1978’s Halloween is scary, try asking a woman for her opinion; a film about a man obsessively stalking a woman to the point of murder is something that is still far too relevant today. Watching Michael…
‘Beautiful Boy’ Review: Timothée Chalamet Astonishes in Painful, Messy and True Story About Addiction
Early in Felix Van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy, based on the best selling novels by David and Nic Sheff, David (Steve Carrell) is told that relapse is to be expected in addiction recovery – even thought of as one of the…